Places
- England
- Lindisfarne, Northumberland, home of a medieval monastery
- Ireland
- Inish Cealtra, near Mountshannon on the west shore of Lough Derg
- Russia
- Vaygach Island, Arctic Circle, with one community of 100 inhabitants, Varnek, Russia
- Scotland
- Eileach an Naoimh, also known as Holy Isle, located in the Firth of Lorn
- Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, off the Isle of Arran
- United States
- Holy Island, Massachusetts
- Wales
- Holy Island, Anglesey
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“All places that the eye of heaven visits
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Sunday Correspondent (London, Aug. 12, 1990)
“In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hog’s back with the bristles up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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